kimba

Updated: May 10, 2025

To make matters worse, the wound broke out afresh; and he would have been cured neither of it nor of the scurvy had it not been for the energetic treatment of an old negress, who was accustomed to doctor the scorbutic affections, so common in that country. On the 9th January, 1828, Caillié left Timeh, and reached Kimba, a little village where the caravan for Jenneh was assembled.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century